TITLE OF LIST: Tween Guy Reads A Select List of Brown County Library books for 5-8th grade boys Click on each title below to see the library's catalog record. Then click on the title in the record for details, current availability, or to place a hold. For additional books and items on this theme, ask your librarian or search the library’s online catalog.
Historical Fiction
Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko (first in series)
Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
City of Orphans by Avi
Crow by Barbara Wright
Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos
A Diamond in the Desert by Kathryn Fitzmaurice
Jefferson’s Sons: A Founding Father’s Secret Children by Kimberly
Bradley
Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes The Liberation of Gabriel King by K. L. Going My Brother Sam is Dead by James Collier Okay for Now by Gary Schmidt Paperboy by Vince Vawter The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare Will Sparrow’s Road by Karen Cushman
Realistic Fiction After Eli by Eli Rupp The Amazing Adventures of John Smith Jr., aka Houdini by Peter Johnson Better Nate Than Ever by Tim Federle (first in series) Football Genius by Tim Green (first in series) Frindle by Andrew Clements Getting Air by Dan Gutman Hatchet by Gary Paulsen (first in series) How Lamar’s Bad Prank Won a Bubba-sized Trophy by Crystal Allen Liar, Liar by Gary Paulsen (first in series) Road Trip by Jim and Gary Paulsen Schooled by Gordon Korman Slob by Ellen Potter Sports Camp by Rich Wallace The Strange Case of the Origami Yoda by Tom Angleberger (first in series) Tangerine by Edward Bloor Travel Team by Mike Lupica
Mystery/Suspense The Black Book of Secrets by F.E. Higgins (first in series) Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls by Claire Legrand Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliet (first in series) Chomp by Carl Hiaasen Death Cloud by Andy Lane (first in series) Fake Mustache by Tom Angleberger Page 1
Griff Carver, Hallway Patrol by Jim Krieg Holes by Louis Sachar Hoot by Carl Hiaasen Island of Thieves by Josh Lacey Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart (first in series) NERDS: National Espionage, Rescue, and Defense Society by Michael Buckley(first in series) Skeleton Creek by Patrick Carman (first in series) Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz (first in series) Swindle by Gordon Korman (first in series) Three Times Lucky by Sheila Turnage Who Could That Be at This Hour by Lemony Snicket (first in series) Wonder by R. J
Fantastical Books Airman by Eoin Colfer Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix (first in series) Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer (first in series) The Book of Three by Lloyd Alexander (first in series) The Colossus Rises by Peter Lerangis (first in series) The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper (first in series) The Dragon’s Tooth by N. D. Wilson (first in series) The Eye, the Ear, and the Arm by Nancy Farmer Eragon by Christopher Paolini (first in series) Erec Rex by Kaza Kingsley (first in series) False Prince by Jennifer Nielsen (first in series) Found by Margaret Peterson Haddix (first in series) Gregor the Overlander by Suzanne Collins (first in series) The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman Jinx by Sage Blackwood (first in series) The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan (first in series) Loki’s Wolves by K. L. Armstrong and M. A. Marr (first in series) The Red Pyramid by Rick Riordan (first in series) Redwall by Brian Jacques (first in series) Revenge of the Witch by Joseph Delaney (first in series) Ruins of Gorlan by John Flanagan (first in series) Sea of Trolls by Nancy Farmer (first in series) The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke Tunnels by Roderick Gordon (first in series) Virus on Orbis 1 by PJ Haarsma (first in series)
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